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To: Van Jenerette
I also challenge my students; 'If evolution is correct and a species evolves and adapts to it's environment; someday can we expect(since equitorial Africa is the 'cradle' of man) to see Naked Eskimos living above the Artic Circle as they adapt to their surroundings according to evolution's premise?

Why do you believe that the theory of evolution would predict such an event?
464 posted on 09/04/2006 12:39:38 PM PDT by Dimensio (http://angryflower.com/bobsqu.gif <-- required reading before you use your next apostrophe!)
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To: Dimensio
Why do you believe that the theory of evolution would predict such an event?

Because he doesn't understand the concept of selective pressure. He doesn't understand that unless there are Eskimoes who are not reproducing for wont of being less able to strut around naked in the snow than some of their, by genetic chance, hardier peers, there is no reason to expect any aggregate genetic movement in that direction within the population over time.

Of course, if Eskimo women decided they preferred only to mate with guys who streaked around the ice fields naked, that would change the equation, as would the complete disappearance of the human ability to manufacture coats.

476 posted on 09/05/2006 5:59:05 AM PDT by RogueIsland (.)
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To: Dimensio
Why do you believe that the theory of evolution would predict such an event?

It's the espousers of the ToE that 'make preditions'.

478 posted on 09/05/2006 6:04:05 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going....)
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